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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).


Ernest Hemingway

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AMBROSE BIERCE Dear Mr. Webster: I have no words to thank you for your dictionary.
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BARRY GRAHAM Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
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JANET FRAME It was a tragic thing that should have never happened. First-degree would have been nice, but I'm gl...
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LENNY BRUCE I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually c...
ETGAR KERET There is No Word Someone in the Dictionary of God when we talk about His Sovereignty
YUSAF I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
MAX BEERBOHM I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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DAVID ROBINSON Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
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DENIS VILLENEUVE you're like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life
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WILLIAM FAULKNER A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times an...
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ERIN MCKEAN Yes,my dictionary is not incomplete and there is a word called "impossible": but it means failure is...
LALIT BHOJWANI Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and...
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JEFF FOXWORTHY I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY You look in the dictionary under 'old pro' and you'll see his picture. He knows how to play the game...
GRADY LITTLE The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.
UNKNOWN I have written all the 406 pages of my book in Swahili words. Even the countries are in Swahili. Ins...
ENOCK MAREGESI Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongsid...
ALAN KING When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words ar...
JAROD KINTZ The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something ...
BILLY GRAHAM The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buil...
ANNE BISHOP The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.
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GRANT HESLOV Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLéON BONAPARTE People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep...
STEVEN PINKER Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he...
JAMES WEBB YOUNG I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler w...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific,...
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ERIN MCKEAN You can never eliminate the word fail in your life's dictionary,but you can eliminate the word failu...
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ABDUL SATTAR Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?"
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and wh...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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